by Alexandra Sokoloff Halloween is almost here; my favorite holiday and, because I write spooky paranormal thrillers, it’s my busiest time of year as a writer. I always know I’m going to have an event on Halloween night. This year I’ll be doing spooky readings at the Dark Nights, Dark Deeds Crime Festival in Grantown,… Read More

Alexandra Sokoloff

I’m the Thriller Award-winning and Bram Stoker and
Anthony Award-nominated author of the Amazon bestselling
crime and supernatural thrillers The Harrowing,
The Price, Book of Shadows, The Unseen,
The Space Between, and the new Thriller Award-
nominated Huntress/FBI thriller series: Huntress
Moon, Blood Moon, Cold Moon. The New
York Times Book
Review has called me “a daughter of Mary
Shelley” and my novels “some of the most
original and freshly unnerving work in the genre.”

I’m a California native and a graduate of U.C.
Berkeley, where I majored in theater and minored in
everything that Berkeley has a reputation for. After college
I moved to Los Angeles, where I’ve made an interesting
living doing novel adaptations and selling original thriller
scripts to various Hollywood studios.

In my stories I like to cross the possibility of the
supernatural with very real life explanations for any
strangeness going on, and base the action squarely in fact.
THE UNSEEN is based on real paranormal research
conducted at the Duke University parapsychology lab, and
BOOK OF SHADOWS teams a Boston homicide detective and
a practicing Salem witch in a race to solve what may be a
Satanic killing. THE SPACE BETWEEN, is an edgy
supernatural YA about a troubled high school girl who is
having dreams of a terrible massacre at her school, and
becomes convinced that she can prevent the shooting if she
can unravel the dream.

I also have written paranormal romance (THE SHIFTERS,
KEEPER OF THE SHADOWS) and the non-fiction workbooks
SCREENWRITING TRICKS FOR AUTHORS and WRITING
LOVE, based on my internationally acclaimed workshops
and blog.

I live in Los Angeles and in Scotland, with Scottish crime
author Craig Robertson.

When I’m not writing I dance: jazz, ballet, salsa,
Lindy, swing — I do it all, every chance I get.

There is something so incredibly exciting about the birth of a new book. THE LOST KEY, the second Nicholas Drummond thriller, is out September 30. Drummond has been asked to join the FBI, and has agreed to leave Scotland Yard and come to America. The book opens on his first day of work at the… Read More

I’m not sure exactly how it happened, but February 25, my eleventh novel will be born into the world. WHEN SHADOWS FALL is the third Samantha Owens novel, a seminal book in the series, as it decides the course of action for the next several books. Every series has a path, planned or unplanned. When… Read More

Writing romance into a thriller, without letting it take over completely, is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Romance is addictive, we all know it, we all live with the need for it, we all want it for ourselves, and we all want our favorite heroine to get lucky, get happy, and get connected in… Read More

The Elizabethan age has been a (nearly!) lifelong obsession for me! It started one weekend when I was about seven or eight. I was staying with my grandma, who loved old movies, and Anne of the Thousand Days came on TV. I was totally fascinated by the fiery, take-no-crap Anne (and her great clothes!), and… Read More

I’ve got a slew of high-octane heroes for you—nine Navy SEALs in my seven-book Navy SEALs Series and three government agents in my Counterterrorist Taskforce Series. That’s enough testosterone to fuel an aircraft carrier. They come in all shapes and sizes with various temperaments and talents. I love these guys! Meet my latest three heroes:… Read More

For years, I’ve been one of those admittedly annoying writers who denied the existence of true writer’s block. I’ve always gotten tons of ideas for books and stories and my “quick tip” for conquering writer’s block was just to apply some BICFOK (Butt In Chair, Fingers On Keyboard) since writer’s block was essentially just a… Read More

It’s release week, release week, release week! Whooop! I loooove release week! My latest Pyschic Eye Mystery, DEADLY FORECAST, debuts Tuesday, July 2nd and I’m oodley excited about it. It is the wedding book after all. For the past ten years I’ve nurtured the relationship between Abby and Dutch and at last their wedding day… Read More

One Lost Summer is in many ways a novel about identity and lies. It is about the lies people tell themselves to survive and the extent to which they may remain unknown in a person’s character and by those closest to them. It is about desire and obsession and it is about summer and the… Read More

Imagine you are a free-living Lakota. Your tiospaye, your clan, has set up summer camp with other friendly tiospaye. Last night you and some friends you haven’t seen since last summer’s gathering celebrated your grand reunion, visiting other camp circles, feasting on elk and deer and dancing into the dawn. Then as the sun peeked… Read More

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by Linda O. Johnston I’ll bet you can guess what I’m talking about: 2016. Can you believe that this year is about to end? It’s December, and this will be my last Writerspace blog for the year. It’s certainly gone fast. I had three books published in 2016: TO CATCH A TREAT, the second Barkery… Read More